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2016 Cherokee County, GA Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Cherokee County, GA went without power for an average of 0.7 hours, a total of 132K customer-hours (Georgia average 4.8 hours). That ranks 112th worst of 157 Georgia counties and 1907th of 2,391 nationally.
Compared with GA, the US and 2015
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Georgia customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Cherokee County, 2016
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | December 27, 2016 14:30 | December 27, 2016 15:45 | 1h 15m | 6,066 | 1,517 |
| 2 | July 19, 2016 21:30 | July 19, 2016 23:00 | 1h 30m | 3,764 | 3,032 |
| 3 | November 2, 2016 19:30 | November 2, 2016 23:30 | 4h | 2,861 | 1,476 |
| 4 | June 16, 2016 01:45 | June 16, 2016 16:15 | 14h 30m | 2,845 | 4,754 |
| 5 | July 30, 2016 08:15 | July 30, 2016 21:15 | 13h | 1,856 | 2,978 |
| 6 | July 19, 2016 17:45 | July 19, 2016 20:45 | 3h | 1,811 | 995 |
| 7 | September 11, 2016 13:30 | September 11, 2016 16:15 | 2h 45m | 1,770 | 4,868 |
| 8 | February 24, 2016 13:45 | February 25, 2016 02:00 | 12h 15m | 1,751 | 4,211 |
| 9 | January 23, 2016 17:30 | January 24, 2016 01:15 | 7h 45m | 1,743 | 1,451 |
| 10 | March 25, 2016 06:45 | March 25, 2016 09:15 | 2h 30m | 1,743 | 4,358 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 119 reached 100+ customers, 33 reached 1,000+ customers, 0 reached 10,000+ customers.
Utility reliability filed with the EIA
SAIDI (average outage time per customer) and SAIFI (average interruptions per customer) that utilities serving Cherokee County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2016, or their most recent earlier filing. Utility-wide figures, not county-specific.
| Utility | EIA year | SAIDI | SAIFI | SAIDI excl. major events | SAIFI excl. major events |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Georgia Power Co | 2016 | 9.7 hrs | 1.63 | 2.3 hrs | 1.43 |
| Amicalola Electric Member Corp | 2016 | 7.5 hrs | 3.34 | 7.5 hrs | 3.34 |
| Sawnee Electric Membership Corporation | 2016 | 63 min | 1.01 | 59 min | 0.96 |
| Cobb Electric Membership Corp | 2016 | 39 min | 0.60 | 34 min | 0.57 |
About this data
- Outage figures come from DOE/ORNL EAGLE-I, which records customers out by county every 15 minutes. EAGLE-I tracked about n/a of Georgia's customers in 2016; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 178,437 customers (ORNL modeled county customer count), including major storm days. It is comparable across counties but is not the SAIDI a utility files.
- An outage event is a continuous stretch with customers out; counts at 100, 1,000 and 10,000+ use its peak.
- Years loaded: 2015–2025. Cherokee County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Cherokee County, GA annual power outage report, 2016, data as of Oct 3, 2026 02:41 UTC, sources: DOE EAGLE-I (https://eagle-i.doe.gov/); EAGLE-I modeled customer counts (MCC) (https://figshare.com/); EIA Form 861 (utility reliability) (https://www.eia.gov/electricity/data/eia861/). https://massoutage.com/reports/2016/georgia/cherokee-county